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Televangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatified in St Louis — one step closer to sainthood

Televangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatified in St Louis — one step closer to sainthood

Published by Sam Flores

ST LOUIS (RNS) — In the former home of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams on Thursday (Sept. 24), there was an unusual option beside the popcorn and soft drinks: T-shirts bearing the face of a Catholic archbishop. Tens of thousands of attendees filled The Dome at America’s Center and many more joined online to view the formal, lengthy ceremony celebrating the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen — who now holds the title “blessed” and is one step closer to sainthood. Sometimes called the first televangelist in the United States, Sheen’s beatification was presided over by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a media star in the Philippines and a Vatican evangelization official. It came after the Vatican determined Sheen had lived a life of “heroic virtue” and that a mother’s 2010 prayer for Sheen’s intercession was responsible for the miraculous recovery of her baby, James Fulton Engstrom, who spent 61 minutes without a heartbeat after birth. Sheen, who died in 1979, beat out Lucille Ball for the Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Personality in 1953. His radio …

Ford shares a closer look at the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup [Video]

Ford shares a closer look at the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup [Video]

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The Ford Fathom will go on sale in early 2027, starting at $28,350. With its official debut coming up, Ford revealed new footage of the electric pickup, offering our best look yet. Ford Fathom EV pickup launches in 2027 It’s official. Ford announced last month that its new midsize electric pickup will be named the Fathom when it goes on sale in early 2027. The Ford Fathom will start at just $28,350, making it one of America’s most affordable EVs. That’s for the standard-range version and does not include a $1,595 delivery fee. Even with the fee, prices start at under $30,000. Not too bad given what Ford is promising. Ford said the Fathom will compete in the heart of the affordable EV market, but the price is the least interesting part. The electric pickup will offer more passenger volume than a Toyota RAV4, and that doesn’t include the added bed or frunk (front trunk) space. It will also be the first vehicle to have Apple Maps integrated directly into the navigation system, providing turn-by-turn …

Look Closer: Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard

Look Closer: Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard

Published by Daniella Wilson

Pieter de Hooch was a contemporary of Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch city of Delft for a time; they painted similar subjects, in similar costumes, engaged in similarly quotidian activities. But they were quite different artists. De Hooch’s 1663 painting Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard delivers exactly as little drama and numinous transcendence as its title promises. (It was formerly called The Good Housewife, which is hardly better.) The intrigue lies elsewhere. Explore the August 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More De Hooch’s picture is a puzzle box—an ingenious construction of openings and closings, insides and outsides, revelation and concealment. The sturdy wall behind the standing women with their crisply folded stack of linen is breached in three different places, extending our vista with sudden depth. On the right is a stairway twisting up and out of sight, on the left a window, and in the center a door. From the May 2023 issue: How to look at a Vermeer These last …

DfE closer to 6,500 teachers target, but workforce shrinks

DfE closer to 6,500 teachers target, but workforce shrinks

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Ministers have claimed to have hit 70 per cent of their target to recruit 6,500 additional teachers, as official data shows the school workforce has shrunk for the first time since 2019. The Department for Education has released its annual school workforce data today. It reveals fewer entrants to the profession, as well as leavers. Here’s everything you need to know. 1. We’re doing well on teacher pledge, says DfE… Labour promised in its manifesto to recruit 6,500 more teachers. It only released its recruitment strategy in February as part of the schools white paper. The DfE says it has so far recruited 4,654 additional secondary, special and further education teachers against its pledge. The data shows this comprises of 3,008 secondary and special teachers, alongside 1,646 in further education recruited since the 2023-24 academic year. In total, this makes up 71 per cent of the 6,500 pledge, the DfE said. 2. …but workforce starts to shrink The school workforce has started to shrink for the first time since 2019, with the number of teachers …

A Closer Look at watchOS 26.5’s New Luminance Watch Face

A Closer Look at watchOS 26.5’s New Luminance Watch Face

Published by Miika Tikkanen

With watchOS 26.5, Apple is introducing a Pride Luminance face, and it’s one of the most versatile and customizable watch faces. There are pre-configured color options, but the face also supports custom colors. You can select 1 to 12 colors from a palette that has every color of the rainbow, some in-between shades, and black, white, brown, and gray. The colors you pick are distributed across the watch face in a gradient, available in either radial or linear styles. The first style looks like a starburst, while the second style is a series of rectangular lines. The dial can be set to Rectangle for edge-to-edge color, or Circle for a smaller dial that supports four complications. As with most of Apple’s faces, the Luminance face is animated. When the wrist is down, it shrinks into slim lines of color on a black background, but when the wrist is raised, the full color palette is displayed. Colors will also shift slowly. Apple’s pre-selected colors represent different Pride flag colors, but with the deep customization options, the …

The Artemis II Moonshot Deserves Your Awe, and Your Closer Attention, Too

The Artemis II Moonshot Deserves Your Awe, and Your Closer Attention, Too

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Travel to space has become commonplace. In the past three decades, nearly 300 people have flown to and from the International Space Station, some of them residing there for months at a time. In the past several years, the rocket startup Blue Origin has launched a series of day trips just over the threshold into space — high-end carnival rides for celebrities including Katy Perry, Gayle King and William Shatner. The Artemis II lunar mission is different. NASA’s spaceflight, which lifted off Wednesday evening, is carrying four astronauts round-trip all the way to the moon — roughly 250,000 miles from earth, it’s a thousand times farther away than the space station — and they’ll have to break free from Earth’s gravity to do so. It’s a trip that only two dozen humans have ever taken, and the last time it happened was in 1972. Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft will also take its four astronauts farther than any humans have ever traveled into space, on a long arc reaching 4,700 miles beyond the far side of …

Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase accused of rigging playoff pitch

Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase accused of rigging playoff pitch

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase is now accused of taking part in a pitch-fixing scheme that extended into the postseason, according to federal prosecutors. A superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn alleges that Clase, along with fellow pitcher Luis Leandro Ortiz Ribera and Robinson Vasquez Germosen, conspired to predetermine certain pitches in Major League Baseball games and quietly tip off gamblers. Prosecutors say the operation ran from May 2023 through June 2025 and generated at least $450,000 in illicit winnings. Robinson Vasquez Germosen indicted as co-conspirator in Emmanuel Clase/Luis Ortiz pitch-rigging case. Charging documents link them through text chats and the pitchers leaving him Guardians tickets labeled for family and friends. See more at @InGameHQ pic.twitter.com/Sku3MC9VxA — brant james (@brantjames) February 13, 2026 The new filing adds that Clase participated in the scheme during a playoff game, a detail that significantly raises the stakes of the allegations. Authorities suggest that gamblers were given advance notice about how specific pitches would be thrown, allowing them to place targeted wagers with unusually favorable odds. What …

This is how we do it: ‘Having sex with other people brought us closer, but also exposed insecurities’

This is how we do it: ‘Having sex with other people brought us closer, but also exposed insecurities’

Published by Sam Flores

Todd, 49 The first time we had sex with a couple, I didn’t anticipate how destabilising it would feel I became friends with Amber in the summer of 2021, when she was still married. One night, we talked until sunrise and I found myself opening up in a way I never had before. When we eventually became a couple in 2023, she was the most satisfying sexual partner I’d ever had, and she says the same. That level of communication, trust and respect doesn’t come naturally to me, but Amber makes it possible. We have similar sex drives, but my body doesn’t respond the way it used to. We’re both experiencing hormonal changes; Amber is perimenopausal, and I joke I’m in “manopause” – my testosterone is low and sometimes I struggle to maintain an erection. When Amber told me she was sexually attracted to women, we decided to explore it together. The first time we had sex with a couple, I didn’t anticipate how destabilising it would feel to see her with another man. Watching her …

YouTube’s new strategy will help it get closer to its goal of replacing all TV

YouTube’s new strategy will help it get closer to its goal of replacing all TV

Published by Miika Tikkanen

For a while now, we’ve known that streaming was becoming the dominant way people watch TV; in 2025, streaming accounted for almost 45% of streaming, more than broadcast and cable viewership combined, according to Nielsen. And among streaming platforms, the most popular isn’t Netflix or HBO Max: it’s YouTube, the everything-streaming platform that’s been around for over 20 years now. And despite the existence of other video platforms, it looks like YouTube’s dominance is only going to keep growing, especially if their newest strategy bears fruit. YouTube teams up with BBC Today: Doctor Who. Tomorrow: the world. Credit: BBC In January, the BBC revealed that it would start making shows for YouTube. We don’t know all the details about this deal yet, or exactly what kind of shows the BBC will make. According to them, it will be a mix of “entertainment, documentaries, children’s channels, news and sport.” BBC already has plenty of YouTube channels, of course, with more than 15 million subscribers between them. But those channels are mainly used to promote TV shows the …